Forming, switching, and maintaining mental sets among psychopathic offenders during verbal and nonverbal tasks: Another look at the left-hemisphere activation hypothesis

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 538-548

  Suchy, Yana ^a   Kosson, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention deficit disorder; Cognition; Executive functions; Laterality; Psychopathic personality; Reaction time; Response modulation; Switching task; Visual spatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL TASK; OFFENDER; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPATHY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PRISONERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33746038464     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135561770606070X     Document Type: Article

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